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Contentious

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Likely to cause disagreement or argument

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Tacit

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Implied or indicated withiut being stated

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Mire

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Heavy deep mud. Soft, spongy earth

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Prodigious

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Extraordinary or amazing in bulk, quantity, or degree

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Inveigle

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To win over with ingenuity or flattery

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Rhetorically

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Asked merely for effect with no answer expected

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Deigning

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To condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one’s superiority that. Us involved; to stoop to a lower level

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Entrenched

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To establish solidly

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Anarchy

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Absence of order

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Insidious

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Harmful but enticing; awaiting a chance to entrap: treacherous

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Mordantly

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Biting and caustic in thought, manner or style

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Enmity

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Positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will

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Effulgence

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Radiant splendor. Brilliance.

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Latent

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On the verge of developing or emerging but not yet visible

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Undulation

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A wavy appearance, outline or form

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Amiably

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Being friendly, sociable

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Irresolutely

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Uncertain how to act or proceed, vacillating

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Reverie

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The condition of being lost in thought; daydream

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Erratic

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Characterized by lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity

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Truancy

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The act if behaving like one who shirks duty; especially one who stays out of school without permission

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Idiosyncratic

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Characteristic peculiarity, eccentric

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Emissary

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One designated as the agent of another; representative; a secret agent

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Transfigured

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To give a new and typically exalted or spiritual appearamce to; transform outwardly and usually for the better

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Dispensation

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An exemption from a law or from an impediment, vow, or oath